Dareios

Dareios (486 BC-) was the Shah of the Persian Empire from 432 BC.

Biography
Dareios was the son of Artabazanes and Stateira, members of the Persian nobility, and he assumed the throne of the Persian Empire prior to 432 BC. He came to lead the empire at the time of the Peloponnesian War, and he planned to intervene in the conflict if any Greek state became overly powerful.